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IndieGames.com is presented by the UBM TechWeb Game Network, which runs the Independent Games Festival & Summit every year at Game Developers Conference. The company (producer of the Game Developers Conference series, Gamasutra.com and Game Developer magazine) established the Independent Games Festival in 1998 to encourage innovation in game development and to recognize the best independent game developers.

After showing off the new NPC interaction tech in December, the latest tech demo for the sandbox undead-apocalypse survival sim Project Zomboid is a flickering glimpse of the new lighting engine, to be included in the games next major update. It's a nice improvement from the previous style lighting, with much prettier, softer, edges.

It's more than just an aesthetic update though, the new lighting engine also lets them simulate light sources like street-lights and torches more realistically, and "zombies will be attracted to the light and even see movement through curtains or sheets". More details on the lighting engine, a rough plan for development in 2012, and other Zomboid news on this blog post.

Project Zomboid is currently available for preorder for £4.99, and comes with instant access to the latest build. There's not been any major setbacks for The Indie Stone recently, let's hope it's relatively smooth sailing from here on out. PZ is definitely one to watch for 2012.